Florida Rep. Cory Mills faced another censure effort Wednesday night, but not without heated criticism from Republican colleague Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina. Mace forced a censure vote on Mills over “alleged stolen valor, arms deals he’s under investigation for and alleged abuses toward women.” She also targeted Mills after a handful of Republicans blocked the censure of Democrat Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, who colluded with Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing.
“The more we learn about this guy and his purported activities, the worse it is,” Mace alleged regarding Plaskett’s censure failure, claiming Mills cut a “backroom deal” to suppress his own censure. Similar accusations were made toward Mills in September when he was the deciding vote to protect Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s censure for insensitive comments following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
“Another backroom deal so Cory Mills can’t get censored [sic] for Stolen Valor,” Mace said on X, “I have the General who ‘recommended’ him for the Bronze Star on record saying he never wrote it, never read it and never personally signed it. This. Is. Washington.”
The censure vote ultimately failed 310-103, with 204 Republicans and 106 Democrats defending Mills. Only eight Republicans—Reps. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Kat Cammack of Florida, Joe Wilson of South Carolina, and Mace—voted to advance the censure measure.
Mace later addressed her outbursts on X, stating the real scandal is Mills’ track record. “While Rep. Cory Mills is worried about my ‘mean’ words on the Floor last night — I’m worried about our national security and what sort of arms deals he or his companies have with foreign countries. I’m worried about how court records show he abuses women and had to have a restraining order set against him for it. I’m worried about how stealing the stories of other soldiers constitutes STOLEN VALOR and spits in the face of veterans who gave it all Hold your tongue and sit this one out Mr. Mills.”
The censure failed, but Mace still called the effort a win. “Last night was a win with either outcome of the vote,” she said on X. “Now the Left can’t do any more backroom deals with Mills or use Mills as a bargaining chip whenever a Republican moves to censure another. And his investigation has been formally referred to an Ethics Subcommittee.”
Blaze News reached out to Mills’ office for comment.
